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People use the
terms talent and skill interchangeably but I don't think they should be used
that way. Skills are something you learn and hone while talent is
something you are good at by virtue of being yourself. Some people are talented
at singing. I'm not one of them. Some people study to sing well and they
train hard to get to that level. The two people who sing well may be
indistinguishable but calling a person who worked hard "talented"
disregards their hard work. They are both skilled though.

Venn diagram

Talent is
valuable and cannot be bought. Skill is the result of talent added to
education and practice.

Enough
background.

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The majority of
the materials have been gathered or ordered.A short list of remaining materials has been compiled and all the components
are currently owned with the possible exception of suitably sized Nd
magnets.PVC pipe and PVC caps have not
been bought since a suitable size has be not been calculated.

An order with
Digikey.com was compiled to show which parts could conceivably be used in place
of parts already owned.The shopping cart
was copied without a shipping estimate.

Digikey shopping list

An enclosure was
added to the list at $1.00 under the assumption that an Altoids tin, or
similar, would be used.

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